Sentences with phrase «which education environment»

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After selling Trader Classified Media in 2006, John MacBain has been focused on philanthropic work, founding the Geneva - based McCall MacBain Foundation, which grants funding for efforts in education, health and the environment.

«The desire for power, status, and money characterizing dark triad individuals may steer them toward, for example, economics, business, and law educations because these educations pave the way for a career in the corporate world, and the corporate world generally rewards self - serving behavior and provides an environment in which individuals with dark personalities can make use of their qualities and succeed,» commented the researchers.

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.

Vista and its leadership, through their contributions to the organizations and foundations with which we work, are committed to strengthening our communities by investing in job training and opportunity, access to education, supporting the arts and culture, and protecting our health and environment.

, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

Now, then, we come to the «information environment» which is at once the chief danger to conserving what is necessary for a humane survival and consequently that upon which the thermostatic activity of education is to act.

Yet we ought not treat education like a simple input - output situation, in which the right learning environment can program our students to be Christians.

To be eligible to receive a donation, the organization must be a 501 (c) 3 doing charity work in Minnesota and must fall within Grand Casino's categories of giving which include health and human services, arts & culture, education, environment or holiday giving.

This includes Corporate Social Investment, whereby the group promotes the development of learners through three academies which offer holistic, full - year programmes centred around sport, art and education; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the enveducation; Entrepreneur Development which focuses on skills - based entrepreneurial development through its Tsogo Sun Book a Guesthouse and Supplier Development programmes; and Environmental Education, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the envEducation, committed to initiatives that reduce the impact the business has on the environment.

The Institute was one of just six winners (of a possible ten) in Phase One of the Educational Programs Challenge, for which it was awarded a $ 25,000 cash prize for its proposal to create a multi-media concussion education intervention designed to create an environment in which student - athletes are not penalized, ostracized, or criticized for honestly reporting their own concussion symptoms as well as those of teammates but are actually encouraged to do so.

The Sandals Foundation funds projects in three core areas: education, community, and the environment, in an effort to play a meaningful role in the lives of the Caribbean communities in which they operate.

Within this framework, our faculty come from a diverse background of interests and education, which creates a rich and lively learning environment.

But the modern, and dominant, view of developmental scientists like Steinberg is that the degree to which parents can successfully parent their children is highly dependent on how well their social environment — education, policy, media, culture, the economy — align to support children's development.

Mission: Pine Forest School provides an education of the whole child and is dedicated to helping individuals achieve their full intellectual, emotional, and physical potential in a sustainable and beautiful environment which reinforces integrity, understanding, respect, and trust.

PMWS welcomes families in which the parents will be partners in providing an environment that supports the understanding of child development reflected in Waldorf education.

Afterschool meals help draw children into afterschool programs, which provide education and enrichment activities in a safe environment where children can learn and play while their parents are at work.

Since its inception over two decades ago, we have seen maternity wards transform from places historically infused with enormous influence from formula companies and default maternity care and infant feeding practices that undermined breastfeeding, to environments in which evidenced - based care is provided, education is free from commercial interests, and mothers are supported in reaching their infant feeding goals.

This exceptional location supports the school as a dynamic center for learning in which the arts and the natural environment are utilized as focal points for education.

Experts argue that education will not suffice without changing the contemporary «obesogenic» environment in which adolescents have countless sources of high - caloric - density, low - nutrient - density foods and beverages.

These classes offer toddlers a nurturing environment in which to play and explore, and parents a place to connect, find a supportive group, discuss and share child development and parenting issues, and learn about Waldorf education.

The second issue is a naïve conception of personhood, which fails to appreciate the all - encompassing influence of environment, including education, in the development of a human being.

Several crucial aspects then weigh in our conduct, actions and propensity to act morally or immorally, of which the environment (such as education, or social and cultural context) and exogenous conditions are crucial.

The rest consists of non-voter approved backdoor borrowing — which, in addition to economic development, includes another $ 1.2 billion for a new healthcare - related Capital Restructuring Financing Program, $ 940 million for higher education, $ 714 million for transportation, $ 396 million for state facilities, $ 168 million for parks and the environment, $ 154 million for housing and $ 60 million for other purposes.

The delegates were divided into different committees, which dealt with subjects ranging from internal affairs to foreign affairs, as well as law, finance, education, health and environment.

As the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the UBA Group, UBA Foundation is committed to the socio - economic betterment of the communities in which UBA operates, focusing on development in the areas of Environment, Education, Economic Empowerment and Special Projects.

The Green Party manifesto has the stated aim of creating a «national health society» and presents a picture in which employment, education, transport, housing, food and the environment all contribute towards the creation of a healthier and more equal society.

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

The Committee, which is chaired by the Minister for Planning, Prof. Gyan Baffuor, has the Ministers for Trade and Industry; Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Finance; Food and Agriculture; Attorney General; Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation; Monitoring and Evaluation; Education; Health; Sanitation and Water Resources; Local Government and Rural Development; Gender, Children and Social Protection; Employment and Labour Relations; and Fisheries and Aquaculture as members.

This guidance, together with new powers in the Education and Inspections Act, are welcome tools which we hope will help to develop a calm and ordered environment in our schools.»

They say the comments interfere with the board's ability to conduct official business and violate the state Dignity for All Students Act, which requires the district to provide students with an education environment free of harassment and discrimination.

Furthermore, district schools are left to «compete» in this complex environment with no assistance from the Department of Education, which leaves principals to «market» themselves with whatever they can shoestring together from already overstretched budgets.

Under state law, the Education Commissioner may remove a Board member for office for a violation of the law or willful neglect of duty; the Board argues that Paladino's statement violates the Dignity for All Students Act, «which requires school districts to provide students with an environment free of discrimination, harassment and bullying.»

«More than just an advocate for public safety, education and the environment, along with many other policy issues, Peter and his family have been defenders of diversity and tolerance, which has fostered Queens becoming one of the most inclusive places on earth.

Rockland County Legislator Nancy Low - Hogan explained the bill's content, which states that when placing a child in a special education class, the school district must take into consideration any differences in educational impact between a school's environment and the child's home environment and family background.

At the event, Jones, who serves as Franklin County Chairman, introduced his education platform, which includes increasing state aid to public schools and the elimination of the Common Core, which he said places teachers and students in high - pressure environments with «high stakes» testing.

The petition specifically states that Paladino's comments, which were published in Artvoice last month, violate the state's Dignity for All Students Act, which requires districts to ensure students an education environment free of harassment, bullying and discrimination.

Toddlers vary widely, however, in the rate at which they learn new words.1 A team of Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers set out to ask whether and how children's language environment can...

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

With the government pushing for higher standards in education, schools are feeling the pressure to invest in new textbooks and learning materials and can easily forget the importance of the environment in which the children learn.

KI Europe, for example, is an education company that has always been mindful of including an element of flexibility in its products to schools via the «maker - centred learning environment», which its education sales director Kevin Geeves describes as «founded on interdisciplinary sharing and learning in an active form, allowing participants to express their curiosity and share their learnings across disciplines.»

The research, which is anticipated to be completed later this year, draws on lessons learned from fields of business and management organisational psychology and explored data gathered from Education Support Partnership's Positive Workplace Survey, a service the charity provides to help schools better understand their working environments.

Professor Upkar Pardesi, co-founder and chairman of MyEd, said: «Parents are increasingly aware of the type of education environment they want fostered for their child, and choosing a political manifesto which furthers their child's learning will be a key consideration.

Monkey Music founder, Angie Coates, herself a teacher of music, values her own experience of working with children and teachers in a school environment and this is testament to Monkey Music's pioneering curriculum and teaching style which has become the template and standard for pre-school music education across the UK.

Veronica Boix - Mansilla, education chair of the Future of Learning institute and principal investigator for Project Zero, explained that the institute sought to build on the success of the Project Zero Classroom which for the last 14 years has helped pre-K-12 educators create powerful learning environments.

And when they're in a classroom space, which can be a kind of sacred space, being listened to, where no questions are stupid, it resonates that this is a real learning environment and education is deeply transformative.»

It improves the quality of education by promoting student - centred and participatory teaching practices and by creating a safe learning environment, both of which are fundamental for learning to take place.

Finally, we are deeply committed to preparing the next generation of educational leaders, many of whom will have HGSE degrees and all of whom should be knowledgeable about the underlying science of learning, the causal mechanisms of disparities in achievement, and the policy environment in which education priorities are determined.

The Impact of Budget Cuts The director of Let Me Play, a group which has run summer schools for the last eight years, explains that a smooth transition from primary to secondary education is essential Children are going from being «a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one, in a very large unfamiliar environment».

Mesma is an adaptable, versatile and cost effective web - based resource, which enables important areas of the self - assessment process, associated improvement planning activities and observations of teaching and learning to be allocated to authorised people within a education environment, driving greater accountability in the delivery of training provision for apprentices.

Since its founding in 1920, the Harvard Graduate School of Education has been training professionals to create environments in which teaching can transform lives.